Mohawk Advice Needed!!!!

I have brown curly, frizzy and unmanageable hair. I want a "girl" mohawk with my bangs, but I want to dye it platnum blonde and get random colored highlights Like orange, green, turqoise, yellow, blue, red, purple ...etc... I need to know what semi- permanent dyes will work best in my hair and the best way to dye and style my mohawk without frying it. The main thing I am worried about it not frying my hair and making sure my money isn't wasted.

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Permalink Reply by CorpseQueen on July 14, 2011 at 7:06pm

It's highly unlikely you wont fry it at least a little going platinum but there are ways to help reverse the damage, I can post a list of healthy hair care tips in another comment. I warn you know, that some of those colors, even in small amounts, will bleed into your blonde and possibly even the other colors over time. Its likely the look will only stay the way you want it for one wash. Sticking to all light shades of those colors will help reduce the risk of that happening or at the very least, make it less noticeable when it does happen. My personal favorite dye has always been punky colors. The colors are vibrant and long lasting and the dye itself smells amazing and leaves your hair feeling healthy and amazing.

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Permalink Reply by CorpseQueen on July 14, 2011 at 7:08pm

heres some healthy hair care tips:

-wash your hair every other day. unless you have extremely oily hair washing it everyday will make it dry. your hairs natural oils help protect your hair, so you dont want to wash it all away everyday.. but you also dont want to let it build up too much.

-wash your hair with warm water (not hot) and rinse with cold. the warm water, like the pores of your skin, opens your hair follicles, allowing it to be cleaned thoroughly. the cold water closes them back up.

- brush your hair well everyday. this takes the oils your scalp makes to protect your hair and coats each strand. be gentle and use a good brush.

- deep condition/use a hair mask once a week. you can buy some at both at beauty supply stores or most places that sell shampoo/conditioner. or you can make your own using foods like avacado, mayo, eggs, butter, olive oil, etc. mix together and nuke till warm work into your hair, cover with a plastic bag or plastic wrap and leave on for a half hour then wash out.

-use a hot oil treatment once a month, they can be found very cheap at beauty supply stores. hair placenta is also a great product found at beauty supply stores.

-get monthly trims to remove all spit ends.

-avoid using styling tools that use heat (blow dryers, curling irons, flat irons, etc). avoid bleaching and excessive dying..

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Permalink Reply by Steve on July 14, 2011 at 8:02pm

Getting a 2 part bleach that requires you to mix a developer and a powder bleach is the best way to avoid frying it. Your suppose to use 3 parts developer to 2 parts bleach, but I recommend 4 parts developer to 1 part bleach and just let it sit longer (I have the worlds darkest black hair and had to let it sit for over 3 hours, but it works).

To be able to dye it the way your describing would take allot of hair DIY know-how, my advice would be to stick with 1 color until you get better at it.

The best dyes are Special Effects and Punky Colour. Punky Color Vermilion Red is the longest lasting red dye I've ever seen, red usually fades away after 3 or 4 washes, this stuff lasted around 50. Avoid Manic Panic and Spalt!

Dye doesn't fry hair, and blow drying it to get it up doesn't do allot of damage, my advice would be to sleep with it up for as long as possible to avoid the wrath of the blow dryer.

To put it up:

1] Using a comb to hold hair up, spray Rave (theres a spray called Rave, just to make sure something doesn't get lost in translation here) on one side (lets say the right).

2] Move onto next section with comb, spray on same side as in [1] (the right)

make sure to put the sections where the hair wants to be, not where you want it to be. By this point there should be a gap about 3 inches wide between sections [1] and [2]

3] Since you sprayed the Rave on the same side in the first 2 steps, graze your hair with the comb and the non sprayed side (don't stab it through, that'll just make lots of little gaps) into the gap from both sides, and spray (on the left, this time).

Repeat down head.

4] When you get your hair how you like it, (still use a comb to hold your hair in place so the dryer doesnt blow it around) go over it with got2b freeze spray.

The reason this works is because Rave is more watered-down then got2b, so when you spray it, it's only good enough to coat one side, leaving the other soft enough for a comb. It also adds thickness (why, I can't explain) so the hair at the top of your hawk isn't transparent.